Partner with enterprise clients to raise software quality, modernize delivery, and lead traditional-to-Agile transformations — tailoring quality strategy to each organization's culture and business environment.

- Spearheaded numerous high-value, integration-based IT projects, underpinned by deep test management and quality expertise.
- Restructured a key client's end-to-end IT process for full ISO 27001/9001 alignment and compliance.
- Led a complex enterprise program delivering the implementation and integration of test automation across the IT organization.
- Conducted an independent internal audit of a major client's risk management, governance, and internal controls ahead of a test automation rollout, providing unbiased assurance.
- Reviewed documentation and ran stakeholder interviews to select the most cost-effective testing tools and test-environment platforms for a telecom client's automation programme.
- Designed and led a QA/QC Competence Centre (CoE) as Solution Architect — defining the business, budget, and resourcing strategy.
- Coach organizations, teams, and individuals to adopt Agile practices and embed Agile values and mindsets.

Owned quality and test strategy across XAPT's global software production, driving Agile adoption and measurable quality gains.

- Defined and evolved the QA strategy across software production departments—methods, processes, and SDLC tooling aligned to business objectives and industry best practices.
- Built KPI-driven QA reporting, introduced test automation frameworks, and redesigned QA workflows to improve efficiency, transparency, and quality outcomes.
- Modernized and stabilized the test automation stack for scalability and long-term maintainability.
- Trained 100+ professionals in Agile, Scrum, Lean, and JIT, enabling teams to adopt Kanban and hybrid delivery models.
- Led risk and resource management across projects, identifying improvement opportunities and advising on solutions.

Built the QA and QC function from the ground up, leading a high-performing test team to deliver quality systems across multiple locations and embedding a culture of ownership and accountability.

- Defined, implemented, and directed QA/QC processes from scratch, aligned to location-specific business requirements.
- Built and managed a new QA/QC team across three locations — owning recruitment, retention, and development, and lifting staff contribution through professional-development initiatives.
- Raised work and process standards to a consistently professional level across the department.
- Established a cross-platform test automation framework using open-source tools for desktop-browser and mobile functional testing.
- Implemented a SauceLabs-based test execution environment with TestRail, SpecFlow, Appium, and C#/Selenium.

Led the test team and local operations, partnering with product managers to strengthen quality control and build out testing infrastructure.

- Led a team of testers to assess existing production and inspection systems and developed innovative solutions to improve QC procedures and methodologies.
- Headed local operations—extending IT infrastructure and procurement and scheduling resources against demand to ensure efficient testing of new, changed, and maintained solutions.
- Recruited, onboarded, and ramped up a new QA/QC team to spearhead key projects.
- Advanced the test automation framework and environment.
- Implemented new tooling including TestLink, Capybara, Appium, and Cucumber.

Built the software test process from scratch and led the test team for a SaaS marketing platform, owning test planning, delivery, and the growth of the team.

- Defined the software test process and the functional regression test suite from the ground up.
- Planned, managed, and reported on day-to-day testing; provided performance management for a team of testers delivering high-quality testing to company standards.
- Recruited, mentored, and developed test team members—motivating the team to perform at its best and creating a strong sense of ownership for product quality.
- Scheduled and balanced testing resources against demand for new, changed, and maintained solutions.
- Implemented new testing tools and improved test coverage and efficiency.

Built the software test process from scratch and led the test team for a medical-device manufacturer, covering both software and hardware testing.

- Defined the software test process and a hardware-based functional regression test suite from the ground up.
- Planned, managed, and reported on day-to-day testing; provided performance management for a team of testers delivering quality systems that conformed to requirements.
- Recruited, mentored, and developed test team members, growing the team's capability and ownership of quality.
- Scheduled and balanced testing resources against demand for new, changed, and maintained solutions.
- Implemented new testing tools and introduced a continuous integration pipeline for Dev and Test.

Led IT operations end-to-end — building a stable, scalable infrastructure and modernizing deployment through CI and automated testing.

- Built a stable, scalable, high-availability (HA) server environment with the team, eliminating recurring system slowdowns.
- Designed and launched a new deployment process with automated code-quality checks and test execution via Jenkins CI.
- Built a granular monitoring and alerting system covering all services.
- Managed day-to-day IT operations and processes — performance management, metrics, and operational policy compliance.
- Owned IT procurement and vendor management, maintaining network, telephony, and compute capabilities across internal and external resources.
- Coordinated with development on defect root-cause analysis and managed stakeholder expectations for project success.

Held executive responsibility for the company's IT strategy, infrastructure, security, and the IT department as the senior point of contact to upper management.

- Set IT direction and drove improvements across all areas of IT, serving as the primary IT contact to executive management and reporting trend analysis to leadership.
- Managed the IT department—staff appraisals, career development, pay reviews, and performance—and owned the full IT budget and hardware/software procurement.
- Owned IT infrastructure services end-to-end: desktop, LAN/WAN networking, telecommunications, and IT security.
- Developed and controlled the IT security policy and maintained the disaster-recovery (DR) plan.
- Led the development and implementation of new systems in line with business needs.

Established and led the test department in an Agile delivery environment, owning test leadership and strategy across the product portfolio.

- Established, led, and grew a technically competent test department, defining the quality system that ensured products met specifications, regulatory requirements, and high reliability standards.
- Owned QA test leadership and strategy across application projects, enhancements, and support.
- Mentored test engineers and technicians, provided training, and created a strong sense of ownership for product quality.
- Designed detailed manual test cases and scripts from functional requirement specifications and use-case documents; ran functional, regression, and ad-hoc testing.
- Coordinated with development on defect root-cause analysis, tracked defects in Mantis, and produced test summary reports.
- Participated in Agile ceremonies — iteration planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives — as part of a cross-functional delivery team.

Provided QA leadership and test strategy across the product portfolio and led the QA team on the company's automotive project.

- Led QA automotive project end-to-end—from requirements validation to post-implementation review—ensuring QA best practices and methodologies were applied throughout.
- Owned test leadership and strategy for existing applications, enhancements, and support.
- Created and maintained manual and automated tests and scripts to verify and validate features across all products.
- Led the QA team on the company's automotive navigation project.

Established and led the QA department for a banking environment, owning the test strategy and ensuring software met MNB (Hungarian National Bank) regulatory requirements.

- Established, led, and grew a technically competent QA department, defining the quality and testing system that ensured banking software met MNB (Hungarian National Bank) regulatory requirements and high reliability standards.
- Owned QA test leadership and strategy across application projects, enhancements, and support.
- Managed QA across multiple projects end-to-end — from requirements validation to post-implementation review — applying QA best practices and methodologies.
- Mentored QA engineers and testers, provided training, and fostered a strong sense of ownership for product quality.
- Designed and executed manual test cases across functional, page-flow, and navigation testing.

Held one of only six company-wide QA Admin roles at a global energy company, providing technical and task-level direction to QA analysts locally and worldwide.

- Served as QA Admin—one of just six globally across the entire company—directing QA quality and process standards at an organization-wide level.
- Gave technical and task-level direction to a four-person local QA team and to additional QA analysts worldwide, allocating and coordinating work without direct line-management responsibility.
- Optimized QA processes and applied a risk-based approach to test-case preparation, execution, functional, and regression testing.
- Designed and executed manual test cases for customized Wintel (Windows/Intel) software.

Validated mission-critical flight-planning software on Linux/Unix platforms through systematic, test-plan-driven QA.

- Designed test plans and test cases to verify features and functionality, executed them, and identified defects through systematic testing. - Tested flight-planning software running on Linux (Fedora) and Unix (Sun Solaris, AIX). - Worked with IBM Rational ClearCase for version control in a Linux/Unix environment.